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Amy, you precious, precious girl! She played that beautifully, and by played I mean she finally reacted with maturity with regards to Sheldon, their relationship all of it. She was finally honest with him and as soon as she took the pressure off his shoulders, look what happened. They've finally had the talk I needed them to have with regards to love and intimacy. I'm just overwhelmed and so thankful that the writers finally took this couple to heart and gave them what they so desperately needed which was a completely open conversation about their real feelings and issues.

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Wow. I broke a couple of weeks ago and started reading the spoiler thread, but wow...what a thing to come home too! I was there trying to act normal and listen to what my husband was saying, and make lunch, and gave a silent scream as soon as I got in the kitchen! This is amazing - it sounds perfect - like everything we could have wished for!

Happy birthday to Maddie too - it certainly will be now! And eight days to go before it all starts here!

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Amy, you precious, precious girl! She played that beautifully, and by played I mean she finally reacted with maturity with regards to Sheldon, their relationship all of it. She was finally honest with him and as soon as she took the pressure off his shoulders, look what happened. They've finally had the talk I needed them to have with regards to love and intimacy. I'm just overwhelmed and so thankful that the writers finally took this couple to heart and gave them what they so desperately needed which was a completely open conversation about their real feelings and issues.

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I know a lot of shippers were predicting that Sheldon's ILY would slip out by accident or be in some quirky non-ILY format, but I'm so glad that he said the words. That he knew what Amy wanted to say and was thoughtful enough, man enough, to meet her half way and say it first, omg, so grown up!!!

For some reason I could not sleep last night and logged into chat just before Batman joined. Now I know why, there was goodness in the universe! Have read the taping report about 3 times already to make sure that the ILY is still there. Thought there might be a kiss to end the night, but totally fine that there wasn't. The most important thing happened - Sheldon admitted his true feelings to Amy (and I love how he equated his butterflies to some animal or insect but knew it couldn't be true).

Waiting for my 2nd line manager (boss's boss) to call me about some stuff he wants to discuss, how am I EVER going to concentrate.

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I'm still reeling, I cannot think straight today. Man, I can't believe how perfect this whole milestone was, and I can't believe how consistently good the writers are at knocking *every single milestone* for this couple straight out of the park. I cannot wait to see Mayim and Jim act this out.

I think the thing that makes me happiest about the episode is the lack of ambiguity. Every milestone we had in the past was walking the line, without committing 100% one way or another: in the D&D episode, Sheldon was still very guarded and cautious and not quite saying things clearly, in 7x05 there was some of his good ol' ass-ery for good measure an humor, in the SIK episode, the kiss came out of anger and then was followed up by an episode where he nearly breaks up with her over a table. Here, there's none of that. It's clear as day, it's black, not white or any other shade of gray, it's confident and matter-of-fact and canon: he loves her, he knows he loves her, he has known for a while and he's confirmed it three times in the span of one scene. Nobody can come back after this and argue that Sheldon doesn't love Amy as much as she loves him. And the way he said it is totally the way I thought would make more sense for him: that he would figure it out, logically, through time and when he figured it out he'd just *know* what he's feeling, no backsies, rather than blurting it out or needing to be coached by others to figure it out.

And the same goes for Amy. Nobody can say anymore that she is into this just for sex or just to have a boyfriend. She's said it clear up (well, she couldn't quite bring herself to say it, but we know she meant to), that even though she'd like for them to be more intimate, it doesn't really matter to her, she's with him because she loves him.

Again, to me it's like the balance has finally FINALLY been restored, and it couldn't be restored in any clearer way that this. I also love what mena said to me earlier about the symmetry in the scenes, and how this shows how similar Shamy are, again. How both of them are having panic attacks, for different reasons, and can tell that the other is anxious and panicky and needs reassurance. How both are totally clueless at Penny's door about the "body part" jokes Leonard is making. 8x03 was already fantastic in restoring that complicity that I missed for so long, but this is even better because it clears the air in a way that was overdue.

I am so happy for Amy, because she finally got everything she deserves to have. But I'm also so happy for Sheldon because I really felt for him through the episode. He wasn't fussing or whining about going to the prom, he was trying to embrace all the "social conventions", and all around him people were reminding him of the one thing he feels so anxious about and I am starting to believe, now more than ever, that he really doesn't want to let her down OR let himself down when it comes to this relationship. It's not about not wanting to be intimate, it's literally about his huge issues with physical contact, like he said in 6x14. That's why he said he wouldn't mind mating with Amy at the end of the prom if he were an alien and could just catch her eggs (LOL!). It's not the sex that's the issue, it's not Amy that's the issue, it's his own hung ups. So I felt for him, for how nobody seemed to understand where he was coming from (hence all his quiet and confused reactions to the various "you have no homones" comments) and how much turmoil he must have had inside him and building up for years. Amy just finally putting his fears to rest, taking the pressure off of him, must have been like such a relief for him. I always thought that Sheldon really needed that reassurance in order to be more comfortable moving forward, and we saw it here in action almost immediately: she takes the pressure off, he finally feels comfortable enough to declare his FEELINGS, of all things, to her.

And that final photo to me is just the icing on the cake. It shows these two people, with their respective burdens finally lifted from their shoulders, just being happy and in love together. For so long these two have been walking on eggshells around each other, because of what they assumed about the other ("He doesn't feel the same"/"She wants sex"), and that was never why I fell for this pairing. I wanted them to be on the same page, I wanted to see why they were together. The relief must be immense on being on the same page once again, with no ambiguities and no pressures.

I don't know if this makes any sense or it's just a bunch of jumbled messy thoughts, but my brain has literally been turned to mush today and I can't quite function yet. I haven't been this happy about an episode in a long long time. The writers pulled out all the stops here to bring me totally back on board the Shamy ship.